Download or read book Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella written by Tommaso Campanella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato’s Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because of Campanella’s previous conviction for heresy. But Campanella’s philosophical poems are where his most forceful and undiluted ideas reside. His poetry is where his faith in observable and experimental sciences, his astrological and occult wisdom, his ideas about deism, his anti-Aristotelianism, and his calls for religious and secular reform most put him at odds with both civil and church authorities. For this volume, Sherry Roush has selected Campanella’s best and most idiosyncratic poems, which are masterpieces of sixteenth-century Italian lyrics, displaying a questing mind of great, if unorthodox, brilliance, and showing Campanella’s passionate belief in the intrinsic harmony between the sacred and secular.
Download or read book Sonnet written by Rinaldina Russell and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By their very nature, sonnets allow quick glimpses into the lives of individuals and their surroundings. They can reveal what people loved, hated, idealized, and found ridiculous or grotesqueand Italian sonnets in particular exhibit a remarkably wide range of content and form. Rinaldina Russell, a scholar of Italian medieval and Renaissance literature and of women studies, leads you on a glorious exploration of medieval and Renaissance verse in Sonnet. Focusing strictly on Italy, she explains that sonnet writing was not the purview of a selected group of people. From the sonnets appearance in the first half of the thirteenth century through the Renaissance and on to the baroque age, writing sonnets was an activity people at all levels of society and of all intellectual and literary backgrounds practiced. She translates some of Italys most important, interesting, and underappreciated sonnets, conveying the meaning and structure of thought as faithfully as possible. Themes vary from political and military arguments to expressions of love and sexual needs, from atheistic and cynical views on mans nature and destiny, to a celebration of life and the divine. She also provides commentary to relate what translations do not convey, including the rhythmic and verbal effects of the Italian text and its topical allusions.
Download or read book History of Italian Philosophy written by Eugenio Garin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which has heretofore remained virtually unknown to the Anglophonic world of scholarship.
Download or read book Essays on Literature and Music 1967 2004 by Steven Paul Scher written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume meets a frequently expressed demand as it is the first collection of all the relevant essays and articles which Steven Paul Scher has written on Literature and Music over a period of almost forty years in the field of Word and Music Studies. Scher, The Daniel Webster Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, is one of the founding fathers of Word and Music Studies and a leading authority in what is in the meantime a well-established intermedial field. He has published very widely in a variety of journals and collections of essays, which until now have not always been easy to lay one’s hands on. His work covers a wide range of subjects and comprises theoretical, methodological and historical studies, which include discussions of Ferruccio Busoni, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Judith Weir, the Talking Heads and many others and which pay special attention to E. T. A. Hoffmann and German Romanticism. The range and depth of these studies have made him the ‘mastermind’ of Word and Music Studies who has defined the basic aims and objectives of the discipline. This volume is of interest to literary scholars and musicologists as well as comparatists and all those concerned about the rapidly expanding field of Intermedia Studies.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Italian Verse written by George R. Kay and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Landscape Poems written by Alistair Elliot and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book isn't just a gathering of brilliant poems by some of Italy's finest writers. It explores attitudes to landscape, and what Italians call their paese, meaning both 'my town, my village, the countryside I come from' as well as the country as a whole. It's about liking a hill-walk (Leopardi) or hating the loneliness of country places (Belli); about landscape as sex-object (Ariosto) or moral stage-set (Tasso), as a place for visions (D'Annunzio) or nostalgia (Pascoli); about a spring that recalls national history (Carducci) and a holy place that reminds us foreigners are human too (Giusti). Through poems or excerpts from the greatest Italian poems, this tragical-comical-historical-pastoral book presents a view of Europe's changing attitudes to the stuff under all our feet, from the bright and traditional Middle Ages into this gloomy and personal century. The poems, chosen by Alistair Elliot, are printed opposite his translations. There are also helpful notes on Italian verse technique and on points of obscurity.
Download or read book Publications of the English Goethe Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers Read Before the Society written by English Goethe Society and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reason Experiment and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution written by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IL NOME DI DIO NELLA LINGUA DI ADAMO written by FRANCESCO D'. OVIDIO and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonna cos l Amore written by Laura Cioni and published by Aletti Editore. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All’interno le favole di: ATTILA E ULISSE: COSÌ FU CREATO IL MONDO Ogni uomo, sulla terra, ama un Dio, il proprio Dio. “A” COME AMORE… “E” COME ERASMO La guerra è distruzione e morte, nessuno ne uscirà mai vincitore ed esiste solo un baluardo capace di fermarla: l'AMORE, il vostro amore. LE AVVENTURE DI PIETRINO Pietrino, il nostro protagonista, è un uccellino che vive su un grande albero nel bel giardino della nonna, circondato dall'affetto dei suoi amici: Lolli e Tatti, due jack Russell e Uga, la tartaruga. QUATTRO ANZI SEI PICCOLI BUCANIERI La curiosità dei bambini li porta ad essere dei piccoli pozzi di scienza… LE PETIT POURQUOI? A conclusione di quanto detto nei capitoli precedenti…
Download or read book Il ritorno del dio che balla written by Andrea Romanazzi and published by Venexia Editrice. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le tradizioni popolari legate al tarantolismo hanno generato culti e riti che hanno dato vita ad alcune delle più vitali musiche e danze popolari: tammurriate, tarantelle e pizziche, il cui rinnovato interesse tra i giovani sta suscitando un forte richiamo internazionale. L'autore analizza l'evoluzione di tali tradizioni, includendo i luoghi di ritrovo e le feste, le sagre e gli appuntamenti legati al culto della Taranta. La prefazione è un'intervista a Teresa De Sio, grande protagonista e studiosa di musica popolare.
Download or read book Agenda written by William Cookson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentary and Ideology written by Deborah Parker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception of Dante's chief work. By studying the social and historical circumstances under which commentaries on Dante were produced, the author clarifies the critical tradition of commentary and explains the ways in which this important body of material can be used in interpreting Dante's poem. Parker begins by tracing the criticism of Dante commentaries from the nineteenth century to the present and then examines the tradition of commentary from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. She shows how the civic, institutional, and social commitments of commentators shaped their response to the Comedy, and how commentators tried to use the poem as an authoritative source for various kinds of social legitimation. Parker discusses how different commentators dealt with a deeply political section of the poem: the damnation of Brutus and Cassius. The scope and importance of Commentary and Ideology will command the attention of a broad group of scholars, including Italian specialists on Dante, late medievalists, students and professionals in early modern European literature, bibliographers, critical theorists, historians of literary criticism and theory, and cultural and intellectual historians.
Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.
Download or read book In the Company of Many Good Poets Collected Papers of Franco Montanari written by Franco Montanari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of Franco Montanari's "Kleine Schriften" comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he decisively helped establishing as an extremely important field of study; they include general surveys of Alexandrian and Pergamene philology, major contributions to ancient Homeric scholarship (with a particular emphasis on Aristarchus), ancient scholarship on Hesiod and Aeschylus, as well as an important number of editions and notes on papyrological scholarly texts. Volume II consists of 42 contributions to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, the Athenaion Politeia, Lucian, Nonnus, philosophical papyri, the reception of antiquity and portraits of contemporary scholars.
